The odds that he'll have an effect? I'm unsure, and the reason is that he appeals to both left and right.
As such, we don't know if he is "taking" votes from Bush, Kerry, other third party candidates, or no one at all. Taking, of course, is the wrong word - those votes didn't belong to anyone in the first place, anymore than I own my job (i.e., no one could "take" my job. They could replace me at my job, however).
Limited government has traditionally been a conservative/libertarian viewpoint, although I like to hope that eventually, liberals will embrace this point of view also.
As Harry Browne pointed out a few months ago: You can't have a big government that redistributes the wealth without a big government that restricts peoples' civil liberties and tries to remake the entire world. But you can have a society that constantly improves opportunities for everyone without resorting to force.
When liberals join with libertarians to provide non-coercive methods for social progress, we will get the better world that liberals want. [ link ]
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Date: 2004-07-23 09:01 am (UTC)As such, we don't know if he is "taking" votes from Bush, Kerry, other third party candidates, or no one at all. Taking, of course, is the wrong word - those votes didn't belong to anyone in the first place, anymore than I own my job (i.e., no one could "take" my job. They could replace me at my job, however).
Limited government has traditionally been a conservative/libertarian viewpoint, although I like to hope that eventually, liberals will embrace this point of view also.
As Harry Browne pointed out a few months ago:
You can't have a big government that redistributes the wealth without a big government that restricts peoples' civil liberties and tries to remake the entire world. But you can have a society that constantly improves opportunities for everyone without resorting to force.
When liberals join with libertarians to provide non-coercive methods for social progress, we will get the better world that liberals want. [ link ]